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Toyota sells all shares in Tesla as their tie-up ends

Toyota Motor Corp said on Saturday it had sold all shares in Tesla Inc by the end of 2016, having cancelled its tie-up with the US luxury automaker to jointly develop electric vehicles.

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[TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp said on Saturday it had sold all shares in Tesla Inc by the end of 2016, having cancelled its tie-up with the US luxury automaker to jointly develop electric vehicles.

Japan's biggest automaker had bought around a 3 per cent stake in the Palo Alto-based automaker for US$50 million.

Toyota spokesman Ryo Sakai said the company had sold all of its shares in Tesla as of the end of 2016, part of a regular, periodic review of its investments, after it had initially sold down a portion in 2014.

"Our development partnership with Tesla ended a while ago, and since there has not been any new developments on that front, we decided it was time to sell the remaining stake," he said.